Lately I have been soooo tired!
Anyway yesterday Carlos talked us into having a bbq. It was actually pretty cool. We also celebrated Maggie's birthday. Nana and V came like 4 or 5 hours late.

Today Marcela, Alex' cousin came over to hang out. We took Daniel to Gymboree and she came with. She spilled the scoop on living with Nana and V. She says its all good but that she gets tired of his jokes. He tried to gay hate and she was like I have a lot of gay friends. He cut it out. She is pretty straight up, hence I like her. I told her to go volunteer at the school when she gets bored. She liked the idea. She also filled me in on a lot of other gossip. Then I felt bad because I guess Nana has been going through some rough times. I had kind of backed off because I can't stand V. It's just that they are constantly together. Seems things are not going well between them.

Summer is near!

Hello again! Wow what a weekend! It was sooooo hot!! So pretty much the whole weekend I was at the pool. But you won't believe how "cute" things are getting around here. On Friday was movie night. The closed of the parking lot in downtown and then put up a screen and showed the Little Rascals. It was cool everyone brought lawn chairs or blankets. The kids were actually really good watching the movie, everyone that is Danny boy!! A group close to us had brought cushions to lay and Daniel kept crashing on their bed rather than on our blanket. It was soo strange. That little boy and his antics. If I have gray hair when I go back to visit it will be because of him!! :)
Hey then on Wednesdays they are going to have a farmer's market in the parking lot behind our house! How cool is that?

I miss home though. It's weird. I will be fine one moment but then it will just hit me and I will be sad. I can't wait to go and see yall!

Okay, besides the home sickeness I think the mean girl is finally coming out! I have finally decided that I don't care whether V is family or not he's annoying. So I just limit the amount of talk that I do when he's around. I pretty much ignore that he is there and unless I have to speak to him I don't.

Hey in the car today Carlos said "Hey you know who you remind me of?" I was like who? You won't believe it!! He said "That girl from the movie Mean Girls. The character of Lindsey Lohan." He laughed. But I laughed harder because I thought yey! I am becoming a mean girl again!

So Danny and David's party turned out great, despite the fire!
We had it that Friday and the smoke was all cleared out! Did I tell you how close the fire came? It came up to the drive ways of some houses but made it no further!!! Crazy huh?

Well LC you will be happy to know that Danny hates my mother n'law! Not really hates but he doesn't like being in the same room. Sorry I didn't call you back the other night, battery went out and Carlos was over.

I created a start page with html and CSS for my class. Basically it's my home page with all the links I use. I was going to attach it but it only works in mozilla firefox.

So Alex's cousin Marcela is staying with Nana and Victor! They are off our backs for a while!! But they are trying to pass themselves off as healthy people! They are going joggin with her and taking walks, it's pretty funny I wonder how long they will keep it up! Oh I have to tell you something funny that happened!

We were having an early dinner at the village pizza shop in town and who should walk up? Our health freak friends

Sierra Madre Fire

Okay so the fires are crazy! This weekend has just been a strange roller coaster. It's amazing how tight the community is though, as well as organized. We've been told to not go outside because of the smoke. It's very deceiving though cause it looks like a beautiful day but when you do go out you can tell you body is working harder. Big D wen back to school today. We were supposed to celebrate their birthdays this Friday at the park but we're not sure if the smoke will let us. I guess we'll see. Things are not really that bad. They could have been so much worse. They seem to be containing the fire well.

Loss is never easy.

Today I learned that my sister n law's brother died. It was very sad. He had 4 children. Death is always a wake up call. The last time we saw him was, I want to say, around Christmas of 2006. He was such a cool guy. I remember when I first met him I was around 11, but I had the biggest crush on him. He wasn't the best looking but he seemed to have a cool way about him. It's funny cause after he divorced his wife he actually married a girl younger then me!

We went to the beach today with Mary, my manager. It was me and the kids and her and her daughter. Little D just loved the sand, he just got on his tummy and wiggled around. Big D had a blast dancing on the beach and running away from the waves. A couple of waves almost got littles!

I started classes again. I am taking a web design class and a multiple intelligences class. One of my professors read this quote by Elenor Roosevelt:

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

That sums up how I feel every time I start a new class. I get this horrible fear before hand, but once I get through it I feel rewarded. Not sure where the fear comes from but it's quite scary!

My nerves were really going about web design. But as it turns out it's not that difficult. I will be able to get through it. In my other class I felt really good about my professor. She's a little scattered but I just got this strange feeling that I was meant to be there. Have you ever felt that? It's this weird like moment.....Okay like in the Matrix when Neo can see the code at the that the make believe world is written in. I had to really try not to cry, I know really weird!

Now I feel like crying but not in the good way. I feel really bad for C. and my brother, as well as her family.

Good days.

These last few days have been really nice. The weather is good. Only problem is that for the first time in my life I have had allergies. Now I totally understand why there are so many drug commercials for allergies, they bug big time.
Today I took little d to an indoor play ground/center. It was tre cool. It's called Kids Island. Because he's under 12 months it was only 4 bucks. So the thrifty part of me wants to go every day until he's 1! lol That would be cool huh. They've got a whole infant area with a good amount of toys and things to climb, which he likes. We went a little late though, next time we will def. go earlier so that he can be completely worn out on the way home. We had to come back to get big d, so the ride home was horrible. At least it was close though. (Just down the street from the race track, past the mall.)

Congradulations to Me!

Yey Me! Today I finished my first graduate class. We ended with an online class. Each of us had to take turns leading the discussion. We had to pick the topic and questions for or peers to answer. Strangely it was the most nerve racking of all assignments. It’s one thing to present your opinions or discussions in class but online it’s a whole other story. It’s hard to gauge what people are thinking and the sense in which they say things. It went well though because I had a perfect score!! Plus I ended with my average being perfect!! Crazy huh? Now I know it’s the intro course and that I am pretty tech savvy but Al is like we should celebrate. And he’s right, it is a big deal. I am back in school and I am starting off on the right foot. I know it will get harder but the exciting thing is that I am learning a lot!

Okay on another note, I was a huge b** to V yesterday! Gosh I guess that’s not so nice on Easter of all days. So remember we went to his family’s celebration…well we follow him to his parents to pick them up. He then hands Al a walkie talkie. I’m like what? Why would he need this if were going to a park in Pasadena? Well it turns out we were going to the other side of his family, who live in Fillmore. Way out in the middle of nowhere!!!! Because we thought it was close we had made plans for dinner with a friend so we could leave V’s party early. So much for that! Okay, and I don’t mean to offend all of my safe driving friends, but he was going 59, 60, 65, the whole way. Occasionally he would hit 70. It took about 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there! You do know that I have a crazy baby who hates the car, yes? 20 minutes of screaming until he slept! On the way back it was pretty much off and on, mostly on. Anyway back to the walkie talkies. Seems V had bought new ones, an off brand probably a steal. Well thank goodness for that cause the whole way he would point out dumb little things but all we could hear was static. I was in such a pissy mood that I would just think of insults that I could hurl at him that would be short enough for when Al would respond. I managed “duh” “who cares” “cheap” and lastly and worst “idiot”. Poor guy. I think I just have had enough. It’s too much. For reals guys you know that one of the main reasons we came out here was to get away from family and we have told them on numerous occasions hoping they will get the hint. Now I fear I am worse off than before because at least in Houston we would get to rotate between the annoying families but now we just have the same ones over and over and over and over. All right enough whining!

I think it worked though cause we haven’t heard from them in a whole 24 hours!